SUN MICROSYSTEMS AND ORACLE SHARE LONG-STANDING RELATIONSHIP.Oracle (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), Redwood Shores, Calif., one of the world's largest enterprise software companies, now supports Sun Microsystems' (NASDAQ:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) latest update to its UNIX operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services , Solaris 9 Operating Environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . Solaris 9 is optimized for Oracle9i Real Application Clusters via Sun Clustering, which allows resource management and provisioning of portions of the SunPlex environment. This provides Oracle database customers with better performance and utilization of resources. Additionally, the compatibility promise of Solaris 9 allows applications built on Oracle's clustering technology to run without modification in the new operating environment. The net result is that Oracle9i Real Application Clusters on Solaris 9 achieves high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and scalability on demand while enabling reduced service level costs. "Our customers rely on Oracle9i Real Application Clusters to provide them with an e-business solution that is scalable and reliable," said Doug Kennedy, vice president, Platform Alliances, Platform Technologies Division, Oracle Corporation. "Using Oracle's clustering technology, applications can be clustered and scaled without modification. With the introduction of Solaris 9, customers can upgrade their operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. to further drive up service levels and take advantage of dramatically improved performance without any changes to their existing Oracle applications." Oracle9i Real Application Clusters allows customers to scale their applications in a cluster that acts as a single database. The feature uses the resource management facility of Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02, available with Solaris 9, to enhance server utilization of the cluster environment. This facility allows users to failover servers in less than 60 seconds. Oracle and Sun share a long-standing relationship and they continue to team to provide jointly engineered and supported infrastructure solutions to ease customer acquisition and deployment. Oracle and Sun help ensure that customers have easy access to and support of a complete solution either through Certified Configurations of the Oracle E-Business Suite A group of integrated Internet-based applications from Oracle. Introduced in 2001 as Version 11i, it includes modules for CRM, finance, human resources, supply chain management as well as applications for business intelligence. and Oracle9i Real Application Clusters or simply through the Oracle9i Database Enterprise Edition software that ships with every Solaris 9 shipment. As a result, both Sun and Oracle provide organizations with complete solutions that allow customers to focus on their core business, and therefore increase productivity, maximize revenue and profit, and significantly enhance customer acquisition, satisfaction, and retention. "As the ultimate platform architecture for building and deploying open, enterprise-ready Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , Solaris 9 extends its performance improvements across Oracle's Database infrastructure as well as applications suite," said Doug Kaewert, vice president, Sun Developer Network, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Together, Oracle clustering technology on the Solaris 9 OE improves support for continuous availability driving service levels up and costs down." About the Solaris 9 Operating Environment The Solaris Operating Environment (OE) is the premiere operating environment for the enterprise. With over 300 new features, Solaris 9 is the most scalable, available, manageable and secure service delivery platform for the networked world. By focusing on industry standards, the Internet, innovation and integration, Solaris 9 delivers a documented lower cost of operation. Solaris is the leading UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). operating environment with 64 percent market share in shipments and 54 percent revenue share, according to Gartner Dataquest's "1Q02 Servers Quarterly Statistics." The Solaris 9 OE is available on the SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill Architecture platforms and supports more than 12,000 applications. Customers have access to many freeware programs, including utilities, productivity tools and development tools. In addition, the Solaris 9 OE offers an integrated Sun ONE Application Server and Sun ONE Directory Server, along with access to the Oracle 8i database. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com or call 650/633-5551. |
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